Irreverant Disneyland insider tees

An anonymous ex-Disneyland cast-member is selling irreverent, insider-jokey t-shirts (good looking ones, too!) under the naughty name of "Cryogenically Frozen." Link (via The Disney Blog)

• [proto]

  Anybody want to clue us about the in-jokes? I’m feeling left out.

• [Dave]

  @Proto, I worked at Disneyland in the late 80′s and got them all after a little thought (except the redhead one). The wilderness one refers to what you are told as you leave the station at Thunder Mountain railroad, the Hippo one refers to the Jungle ride when the “guide” shoots a hippo trying to capsize your boat, the left side one refers to the Matterhorn where everyone asks the operator which side is better to sit on, the Imagination one refers to the ride with figment in it where they ask if the room is stretching and lastly, Rosita is a parrot that one of the birds in the tiki room asks about. This is all from memory so correct me if I am wrong on any of these… (redhead = haunted mansion?)

• [Cory Doctorow]

  Redhead is from the Bride auction at the Pirates.

  The “stretching” line is from the Haunted Mansion: “Is this haunted chamber ACTUALLY stretching, or is it your imagination, HMMM?”

  The Rosita line is from the Tiki Room, after the introduction of the French birds on the birdmobile (“Just like the Folie Bergere, with only feazers!”) when Jose the Parrot quips, “I wonder what happened to Rosita?”)

• [Teresa R]

  “We want the redhead” is a reference to Pirates of the Carribean. There’s a scene where the pirates are auctioning off the ladies of the settlement they’re raiding. All the ladies look terrified, except for one well-dressed redhead who seems to love the attention. The “buying” pirates are all shouting “we want the redhead” at the auctioneer.

• [gobo]

  Love the idea. Love the quips. Wish the graphics were better-looking… that’s a hippo? (though I like the “redhead” one a lot)

  PS, the original dialog in the auction scene was far baudier than it is now. As they’re auctioning the redhead, one pirate sneers about how he’s sure to be the winner and says “I be willin’ to share, I be!!”

• [A New Challenger]

  I can’t believe I didn’t pick up on the “Redhead” one. Never actually been to the tiki room. I scored 4/6 on this quiz, and Meatloaf reassures me that this is acceptable.

  FYI, there’s a “Redhead” action figure available at the Pirates gift shop when you exit the ride. Or at least there used to be, I haven’t been there in a couple years.

  @Gobo:

  Hah, that’s interesting, my sister and I have wondered about Disney’s logic on the toning down of the Pirates ride: “Yeah, they added food to the plates of the women being chased, but there’s still a wench auction??” On a related note, there was a gag in Pinky & The Brain about the addition of the food that made me and my sister fall out of our chairs when the episode first aired.

  Also, I think the graphics are fine. That hippo is seen from slightly behind opening it’s mouth, by the way.

• [A New Challenger]

  Er, minor correction: “‘Yeah, they added plates of food to the women being chased…’” As it was, what I said made a lot less sense. A New Challenger regrets the error.

• [ydereky]

  I remember trying to come up with a few of these shirts when I was working in Tomorrowland (Submarine Voyage and Space Mountain). I think we tended to be overly ambitious. “come up with something pithy that includes subs, space mountain, autopia, Monorail, people mover, Star Tours, and (unfortunately) captain Eo” And keep it to three colors or less… and make it scalable to a few inches across.

  Ah the memories. Some day a photo will show up in my inbox of me in white submariner pants, white shirt, and the oh-so-nice baby blue/yellow ascot. It’s a look I haven’t tried to pull off in a long time. I fear that day.

• [lost feliz]

  I always liked Steve Hillenburg (Sponge Bob creator) and Burt Payne’s Frozen Walt Dolls that they made at CalArts about 15 years ago. They made some new ones a while back…
  http://www.smartartpress.com/products/1145

• [Dave]

  @Cory Thanks for the corrections. I never really spent much time in the Haunted Mansion while the ride was actually working. ( I worked in Maintenance) I completely forgot about the stretching room because never entered that way. And by the way people were always told it didn’t matter which side you sat on, but cast members all knew the left side was the best!

• [Anonymous]

  Is the link dead, or is it really just “temporary housecleaning” at Cafepress?

• [Cobwebs]

  When I worked at Disneyland several years ago, it was fairly routine for a group of Cast Members to club together and have shirts like this printed at the end of the busy summer season. (Disney didn’t officially sanction it, but they didn’t forbid it either.) It was sort of a badge of honor to own one of the shirts; it looks like this CafePress user is just ripping those off. I definitely remember a couple of these slogans floating around on Cast Member T-shirts in the early 90s.

• [hassan-i-sabbah]

  Good job they put that “sample” across the pic,coz thats a doozy of an image/graphic/meme that could be used without “permission” that you ceraaaazyy interweb types can hype up into a frenzy until we don’t know what we should buy/slag/comsume/deny/buy or just ignore……Shit graphic though….meh.

• [creesto]

  @Hassan right dere withca on the graphic. Actually the creature looks more like H.R. Puff n Stuff than a hippo! Now THAT would be a meme: Real Men Shoot HRPuffnStuff (pansies smoke it)